The two instead began plans on a new game for Sega's new Dreamcast console, either to be an exclusive or otherwise released there first, and was reported on by the press by August 1998, before its official announcement by Yoshiki Okamoto the following October at the New Challenge Conference. Due to concerns between Capcom and Nex Entertainment about a port being of inferior quality to the PlayStation release, the port was cancelled. Resident Evil CODE:Veronica came into fruition following the release of Resident Evil 2.
